Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family.
At the time, agriculture was the main source of income for many in the area and the couple thought it would be easy to make ends meet.
“We are extremely grateful for this record contribution from the US Government to support thousands of people affected by severe drought and those driven from their homes by conflict,’” said Lauren Landis, WFP’s Country Director in Kenya.
SANTIAGO, Chile. The new United Nations report Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022 finds that 22.5% of the Latin America and the Caribbean population cannot afford a healthy diet. In the Caribbean this figure reaches 52%; in Mesoamerica, 27.8%; and in South America, 18.4%.
The publication reports that 131.3 million people in the region could not afford a healthy diet in 2020.
WFP has been implementing school feeding in Armenia since 2012, providing over 100,000 schoolchildren with hot, nutritious meals every day.
The event highlighted the activities of WFP’s school feeding programme in Armenia.
Conducted between August 2021 and April 2022, the evaluation examined WFP’s strategic positioning and the extent to which it has made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; WFP’s contributions to strategic outcomes; and efficiency and factors explaining performance.
It concluded that:
WFP maintained its strategic relevance and demonstrated flexibility in responding to emerging need
The Republic of Moldova, a small landlocked country bordering Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east, is one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe.
The evaluation was conducted between August 2021 and May 2022 to assess WFP’s strategic positioning and role and the extent to which WFP made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; WFP’s contributions to strategic outcomes; efficiency and factors that explained WFP performance.
It concluded that:
The CSP was well aligned with national and UN priorities and demonstrated strong relationsh
Dorati Ndagisa’s loss is achingly familiar in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting has uprooted millions of people, feeding Africa’s biggest hunger crisis.
Chased by armed groups from her farm in DRC’s troubled eastern Nord Kivu province, she and her five children are now destitute.
Yemen is spiraling into a catastrophe as humanitarian funding dries up, forcing the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to scale back food assistance to millions of hungry families, WFP Executive Director David Beasley warned today, as he ended a two-day visit to the conflict-ravaged country.
One month into the conflict in Ukraine, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to one million people in the country and has built systems able to deliver food at scale to communities in need. Trucks, trains and mini vans are today delivering food supplies to the most vulnerable people across the country and more convoys are expected in coming days.
